Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the past week:

CANCELLATIONS/RENEWALS

NBC has cancelled Midnight, Texas after two season. The final episode – which will now be the show’s series finale – will air this coming Friday, December 28. (Variety)

CBS All Access has renewed “Tell Me a Story” for a second season. (Variety)

Elementary is coming to an end on CBS. The procedural will wrap up following its upcoming seventh season on the broadcaster, which does not currently have a premiere date. (Variety)

OWN has canceled Love Is__ after one season. (Variety)

Z Nation has been cancelled by Syfy after five season. The December 28 episode will now serve as the show’s series finale. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Netflix has ordered two more seasons of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The streamer has ordered another 16 episodes of the series, which will be split into two parts like Season 1 and 2. Season 3 and 4 will begin production in 2019. Season 2 is set to premiere April 5, 2019. (Variety)

Van Helsing has been given a fourth season renewal by Syfy. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Ray Donovan has been given a 7th season renewal by Showtime. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Netflix has given a sequel order to the very popular summer movie To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before with lead stars Lana Condor and Noah Centineo returning. (The Futon Critic)

CASTING NEWS

Star Trek alum George Takei will appear as a series regular (as well as a consultant) in the second season of the AMC anthology The Terror, which will take place during World War II and is set, in part, in a Japanese-American internment camp. He will play Yamato-san, a former fishing captain and community elder. (Variety)

Actor Connor Jessup (American Crime and Falling Skies) and actress Emilia Jones (Utopia) have been cast to star as Tyler and Kinsey Locke in the Netflix small screen adaptation of Locke & Key. The 10-episode horror, fantasy series revolves around the Locke siblings Kinsey, Tyler, and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know a devious demon also wants the keys and will stop at nothing to attain them. (Deadline)

Actor Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) and actress Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) have joined the cast of the box office movie Bad Boys 4 Life, starring alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. They will play a modern, highly specialized police unit that collides with the old school Bad Boys (Smith and Lawrence) when a new threat emerges in Miami. The film is slated for release on January 17, 2020. Additionally, Joe Pantoliano will return as Captain Howard. (Variety)

Actors Colin O’Donoghue (Once Upon a Time) and David Denman (13 Hours) and actresses Willa Fitzgerald (Scream: The TV Series) and Vanessa Rubio (Cobra Kai) will appear in an episode of the upcoming Netflix 8-episode anthology series Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings that showcases the stories, memories and inspirations behind Parton’s most beloved songs. They will appear in the JJ Sneed episode where O’Donoghue plays the title character while Fitzgerald plays Maddie, Denman plays Deke Fletcher and Rubio plays Cimmaron. This episode will be set in the 1880s, centering on a feisty young woman trapped in a mundane existence who dreams of more, until a seductive outlaw pulls her into the adventure of a lifetime. (Deadline)

Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of Virgin River, a contemporary romance based on the beloved Harlequin book series by author Robyn Carr. In this story Melinda Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge from This Is Us and The Walking Dead) answers an ad to work as a nurse practitioner in the remote California town of Virgin River thinking it will be the perfect place to start fresh and leave her painful memories behind. But she soon discovers that small-town living isn’t quite as simple as she expected and that she must learn to heal herself before she can truly make Virgin River her home. The ensemble cast will include Martin Henderson (Grey’s Anatomy), Tim Matheson (The West Wing), Annette O’Toole (Smallville), David Cubitt (Medium and Siren), Lexa Doig (Arrow and The Arrangement), Daniel Gillies (The Originals and Saving Hope), Ben Hollingsworth (Code Black), Colin Lawrence (Riverdale) and Ian Tracey (Bates Motel and Travelers). (The Futon Critic)

That’s it. Enjoy!